On Saturday we ate blinis. I got buckwheat flour as a birthday present from my aunt - we visited a farm market together at Kausala and the flour is from a local mill. Maybe this is the reason for the blinis tasting great.

sunnuntai 19. tammikuuta 2014

It is cold and getting colder. Yesterday it was -15 and almost no snow. I feel sorry for my poor perennials, I hope they'll survive this awful winter. The garden looks pretty though, with all the frost.

perjantai 17. tammikuuta 2014

My mum had big seashells as decorations when I was little. I saw these small ones at a flea market and they reminded me of my mum and of course I bought them. They are now in this fifties style bowl but I am looking for a small glass bowl as I think they would look better in a simple dish.

tiistai 14. tammikuuta 2014

I made this brussel sprout/cold-smoked reindeer/walnut/cream cheese/lingonberry pie on Saturday. We chosed to take the picture before putting the pie in the oven. It looked good enough to eat :) The pie tasted ok but it was more of a novelty than a recipe to try again and fall in love with. The recipe was from the January number of "Glorian ruoka ja viini".

The most amazing thing about this pie is that we were driving through Kymenlaakso area and had to visit five stores before we found the sprouts We first tried Kausala's K-market and Kausala's S-market, then Kuusankoski's Lidl and Kuusankoski's S-market and finally found what we wanted in Citymarket in Kouvola's Veturi.

lauantai 11. tammikuuta 2014

Of course we have candles at home, too. We bought these candle holders about 15 years ago. They used to stand behind our dining table at one of our previous homes -not a good idea as I almost burned my hair once.

perjantai 10. tammikuuta 2014

These two hang out on our living room cabinet and remind us about the life in the country. Of course there are not ceramic, flower covered piggies there, never mind the stone lambs, but you get the idea, don't you.